November
Form a Band in November
Prince on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine, flanked by two of his bandmates from The Revolution, guitarist Wendy Melvoin and keyboardist Lisa Coleman. As November begins, I can hardly recall the bright and shiny version of me who jumped headlong into Living Like...
Find Your Band Members
Prince on 12/5/81 in Chicago with band members Andre Cymone (left) and Dez Dickerson (right). (Photo by Paul Natkin/Image Direct) This weekend, I attended Wordsmith 2019, a writing conference hosted by the Loft Literary Center at the University of Minnesota. My agenda...
Who’s in Your Band?
Prince and his band on April 11, 1983 in Chicago, Illinois, the last tour date of the "1999" Tour. (Paul Natkin/Image Direct) As November opened, I intended to take the month's theme of "form a band" literally. Well, nearly literally: Although I wasn't auditioning...